Is it me, or does Linux Mint have terrible file search? (reddthat.com)

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I search for files, and it never seems to find them. Plus it only does one drive at a time, and not just searches my external drives. Any suggestions?

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[-] somegeek@programming.dev 4 points 20 hours ago

If you're a GUI guy, catfish is good. If you're a term guy, fzf, rg, fd are very fast and powerful. I search for files in / (meaning EVERYTHING) and tge results are there in less than 10 seconds.

This blog post has some example usages, read the entries for fzf, rg and fd.

https://alavi.me/blog/cool-cli-tui/#fd

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